Event overview
Public lecture by Hanan Toukan, a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at SOAS, University of London, as part of the Visual Cultures Public Programme
The Precarious Politics of Solidarity: Visualizing Resistance in Contemporary Palestinian Space
Under what circumstances does the creation and mediation of visual cultural production resist and/or reinforce existing power dynamics? This talks aims to converse with some of the conceptualizations related to the politics of aesthetics, the public performance of affect and the politics of cultural production within the context of protest and dissent. Taking the different forms of emergent visual production in Palestinian cities and camps as case studies, the seminar queries what sort of signifiers we can identify within some of these visuals and their circulation. More, it queries what they imply, what might be their political function in reality and in what ways and under what circumstances they are they rendering what is invisible to the eye, visible.
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Hanan Toukan received her PhD from SOAS in 2011. Her award-winning PhD thesis “Art, Aid, Affect: Locating the Political in Post-Civil War Lebanon’s Contemporary Cultural Practices” looked at the role of international cultural funding institutions, “global” and “local” discourses on culture and the arts and travelling theoretical conceptions and enactments of what “the political” holds in cultural production. From 2009-2012 she was a Teaching Fellow at SOAS, where she taught and lectured on the Politics and Society of the Middle East in the Politics Department as well as the Mediated Cultures of the Middle East at the Center for Media and Film Studies. Toukan was a CBRL Postdoctoral Visiting Research Fellow at the Kenyon Institute in East Jerusalem between May and September 2012 and since then has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Forum for Transregional Studies in Berlin. Her writings on cultural and visual politics, travelling theory, contemporary art practices, transnationalism and international cultural aid have appeared in various journals and edited volumes.
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7 Feb 2013 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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